Michelle M. Esposito, PhD Staten Island, NY 10314 • (732) 987-2336 [email protected]

EDUCATION

The Graduate Center, The City University of New York • Doctorate; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental subprogram of the Biology PhD Program, Dissertation Successfully Defended January 25, 2016 (GPA 4.0) • Masters of Philosophy, Biological Sciences (September 2013, GPA 4.0)

Georgian Court University •Masters of Arts, Criminal Justice and Human Rights (accepted 2019; in progress GPA 4.0)

Hunter College •Masters of Arts, Biological Sciences (June 2011, GPA 3.9)

College of Staten Island •Masters of Science, Adolescent Education in Biology (May 2010, GPA 3.9)

The Macaulay Honors College, CUNY CSI • Bachelor of Science, Biology & Secondary Education (May 2009, GPA 4.0)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Georgian Court University Assistant Professor (8/17- present) • BI219- Microbiology Lecture (including New Seminary Sections) • BI219L- Microbiology Laboratory (including New Seminary Sections) • BI327/01- Advanced Microbiology Lecture • BI327L/01- Advanced Microbiology Laboratory • BI327/02- Medical Microbiology Lecture • BI327L/02- Medical Microbiology Laboratory • Updated, Mapped, and Taught Microbiology Lecture and Laboratory, as well as served as course coordinator to manage all adjuncts for extra laboratory sections and online lecture • Developed/taught new upper level electives from scratch and submitted to Curriculum, Advanced Microbiology (Lecture/Laboratory) and Medical Microbiology (Lecture/Laboratory) • Completed Writing Intensive training and converted all of my courses to Writing Intensive sections • Perform Advising Duties and Committee Duties • Mentor to Research, Service Learning, and Honors in the Major students • Open House Faculty Representative

College of Staten Island and Macaulay Honors College, CUNY Adjunct Lecturer/ Adjunct Assistant Professor (1/10- present) (2-4 courses/sections taught per semester) • BIO 105- Molecular Foundations of Cell Function Lecture (General BIO) • BIO 106- Principles of Biology Lecture (General BIO) • BIO 312- Genetics Lecture • BIO 312L- Genetics Laboratory • BIO 314L- Microbiology Laboratory • BIO 327- Molecular Biology Lecture • BIO 327L- Molecular Biology Laboratory • BIO 351- Clinical Microbiology Laboratory • BIO 352L- Cell Biology Laboratory • BIO 751- Graduate Molecular Genetics Lecture • BIO 751L- Graduate Molecular Genetics Laboratory • HON 223- Macaulay Honors Science and Technology Lecture • Research advisor/mentor • Macaulay Honors College Admissions Representative

Wagner College Adjunct Assistant Professor (1/17- present) • Mi200 Microbiology Lecture

Wagner High School Student Teacher (1/09-6/09) and Teacher’s Assistant (2/08- 12/08) • Taught and Assisted Living Environment Classes (Two were ESL Classes)

Petrides Middle School Teacher’s Assistant (10/08-12/08) • Assisted Science Students with in-class assignments and laboratory experiments

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Principal Investigator Microbiology/Molecular Genetics Research Scientist, Georgian Court University (8/17-present) • Focus on Antibiotic Susceptibility screening of microbes present in ornamental turtle and fish tanks, and the effectiveness of alternate less harsh antimicrobials, such as essential oils, on various pathogenic strains of bacteria; Additional focus includes exploring the implications of chromatin remodeler acetylation on activator recycling and proper activation of metal detoxification mechanisms in Saccharomyces cerevisiae • Georgian Court Faculty Development Grant awarded May 2019 • Co-PI with Dr. Jean Parry for Pfizer PURE Grant awarded January 2019 • ICFNJ Undergraduate Research Symposium Grant awarded September 2018 • Georgian Court Faculty Mini Grant awarded February 2018

Environmental Science Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the laboratory of Dr. William Wallace, Aquatic Metal Toxicity, College of Staten Island (11/15 – 8/17) • Focus on the accumulation of toxic heavy metals, copper, cadmium, zinc, and mercury, in invertebrates living in the various contaminated creek sites of Staten Island • Marine sampling field work, invertebrate culturing and maintenance, and analyses of mercury bound to metallothioneins in extracted tissues • CUNY Research Scholars Program Mentor and PSC-CUNY Grant awarded 2017

Molecular Genetics/ Microbiology Research Scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Chang-Hui Shen, Genetic Regulation, College of Staten Island (2/08 – 12/15) • Focus on chromatin structure in gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using techniques for gene isolation/amplification/ purification, as well as bacterial genetics techniques • Assisted with writing and editing grants for NSF and NIH • Mentored over 2-10 undergraduate researchers each semester • Presented annually at CSI Undergraduate/Graduate Research Conference

Research Scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Qiao-Shen Hu, Organic Polymer Chemistry, College of Staten Island (6/07 - 8/07) • Summer Internship – Performed Lewis acid-catalyzed -ketone addition reactions in order to find the most efficient experimental conditions of synthesis

PUBLICATIONS 1. Esposito, M. M. (2016). The Implications of Chromatin Remodelers' Acetylation in INO1 Activation. Academic Works. 2. Esposito, M., Konarzewska, P., Shen, C.-H. (2012). INO1 induction requires chromatin remodelers Ino80p and Snf2p but not the histone acetylases. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 418(3), 483-488. 3. Esposito, M., Konarzewska, P., Odeyale, O., and Shen, C.-H. (2009). Gene-wide histone acetylation at the yeast ino1 requires the transcriptional activator ino2p. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 391(2), 1285-90. 4. Esposito, M. M., & Sherr, G. L. (2019). Epigenetic Modifications in Alzheimer's Neuropathology and Therapeutics. Frontiers in neuroscience, 13, 476. 5. Xing, C., Liu, T., Zheng, J., Ng, J., Esposito, M., & Hu, Q. (2009). Rh(I)/diene-catalyzed addition reactions of aryl/alkenylboronic acids with aldehydes. Tetrahedron Letters: International Organ for the Rapid Publication of Preliminary Communications in Organic Chemistry, 50(35), 4953-4957.

AWARDS

• Georgian Court Faculty Development Grant, 2019 • ICFNJ Undergraduate Research Symposium Award, 2018 • Georgian Court Faculty Mini Grant, 2018 • PSC-CUNY Grant with Dr. William Wallace, 2017 • Ernesto Malave Merit Scholarship for demonstrating outstanding academic and leadership performance under extraordinary circumstances, 2015 • CUNY Graduate Center Science Scholars Award, 2011-2016 • Inga R Richter Award for distinguished female graduate student in research and teaching, 2011 • Summa cum laude, 2009 • Phi Beta Kappa Associates Award, 2009 • Joseph Vagvolgyi Memorial Award for Research Excellence in Biology, 2009 • Biology Department Faculty Award for Research Excellence in Biology, 2009 • Honors in Biology, 2009 • Chancellor’s Award for Academic Excellence, 2008 • Four year Macaulay Honors College Scholarship, 2005-2009 • Jack Nash Scholarship Award, 2005-2009 • Peter Vallone Scholarship Award, 2005-2009 • Academic Excellence Scholarship Award, 2005-2009 • Dean’s List, 2005-2009 • Valedictorian Wagner High School 2005

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Macaulay Honors College Admissions and Recruitment Committee Member (2012-present) • Admissions Interviewer; Open House Representative and Mentor • Recruitment

Our Lady of Pity Church (2012-present) • Assist with food preparations, table set up, clean up, and fundraising at events

Staten Island University Hospital South Site (8/06 - 5/07) Emergency Department

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Committee Services • Co-Chair Balloting Committee of Executive Committee of Faculty Assembly (2018-present) • Member of Academic Standards Committee (2019-present) • Associates Degree Task Force • Search Committee for Biology Department Full-Time Lecturer/ Course Coordinator of Anatomy & Physiology (Spring 2019) • Search Committee for Nursing Department for Simulation and Clinical Laboratory Coordinator (Spring 2019)

Faculty Leadership for Integrative Learning: Revisiting Evolving Pedagogy- AAC&U/Wagner Joint Conference (9/18) • Workshops focusing on Faculty Leadership for Integrative Learning

AAUW TeenTech Conference Workshop Leader (5/18) • Teaching two workshops on microbiology to engage underrepresented high school females in university STEM fields

Manuscript Evaluator (2018 and 2019) • JSJSS Conference through the NJ Sea Grant Symposium

Elsevier Textbook Illustrator (Fall 2017-Spring 2018) • Designed all figures and tables for a Elsevier Diagnostic Molecular Textbook

Invited Speaker (4/15) • Invited Seminar Speaker, Wagner College (April 2015) “The interplay among coactivators in the INO1 transcriptional activation model, with a novel role for histone acetyltransferases”

Manuscript Evaluator (3/15) • Eastern Colleges Science Conference Manuscript Evaluator, Wagner College (March 2015)

Research Mentor and Conference Poster Advisor (2008-present) • ICFNJ Undergraduate Research Symposium at the Liberty Science Center (3/19) Student Mentees Patricia Elcano, Vaidevi Patel, and Farris Ellington • Georgian Court Academic Excellence Day Poster Session (4/19) Student Mentees Patricia Elcano, and Vaidevi Patel • Georgian Court Academic Excellence Day Poster Session (4/18) Student Mentees Christina Morgese, Farris Ellington, and Thomas Quattrocchi • Macaulay Honors College Science Forward Poster Session (12/16) Student Mentee, Sara Beardsley, awarded Faculty Award for best poster “Effects of Temperature and Insect Activity on Pig Carrion Decomposition in Forensics” • Research Mentor in Gene Expression laboratory of Dr. Chang-Hui Shen with strong success rate of mentored students being accepted and completing graduate programs (9/12-5/16) • Jwala and Kristine finished with Pharmacy School (Temple and LIU) • Alicia, Mays, Kristi, Amara, and Giuseppe all completed CUNY Biological/Biotechnology Masters degrees in just a year (usually 2-3 year program) • Alicia and Mays have become Adjunct upper level Biology Professors in CUNY, and Alicia completed her Nursing degree • Alina and Amara are now nearly finished with NY School of Podiatry • Brendon and Andrew attending Buffalo Dental School • Joseph, Robert, Tye, and Eldona attended SUNY Downstate PA School • Christine and Dilakshi completed CUNY CSI Nursing School • Fina attended Touro PA School

• EMBO Conference Poster (May 2013) Chang-Hui Shen, Michelle Esposito, Paulina Konarzewska. A working model of yeast INO1 activation in which the dissociation of chromatin remodelers might result from acetylation. EMBO Conference on Allosteric interactions in cell signaling and regulation. Pasteur Institute, Paris, France. 2013. • CSI Undergraduate Conference on Research, Scholarship and Performance Mentor (5/13, 5/14, 3/15) • CSI Undergraduate Conference on Research, Scholarship and Performance (5/08 & 5/09) “Rh(I)-Catalyzed Addition Reactions of Arylboronic Acids with α,β-Unsaturated Ketones” “Histone Acetylation at the Yeast IN01 Promoter, Transcriptional Activator, and Gcn5p/Esa1p”

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• Proficient in French • Advanced Biology/ Chemistry Technical Laboratory Skills such as Bacterial Genetics Techniques, PCR, RNA Isolation, Reverse Transcriptase qPCR, Real Time qPCR, Gel Electrophoresis, Column Chromatography, Dry Box Reactions, Phenol/Chloroform Extractions, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Assays, SDS-PAGE/Silver Staining/Western Blots, Protein Determinations, Mass Spec, Protein Gel Trypsin Digests, Cell Culture, Yeast Genomic and Plasmid Preps, Transformations, and Genetic Engineering/ Recombinant Technologies, Sensitivity Assays, Primer Design, Environmental Science Field Work, Invertebrate Organism Culturing, Metallothionein Analyses, Metabolic Analyses, Bacterial Identification techniques, Gram Staining, Endospore Staining, Basic Microscopy, Aseptic Techniques, Water Quality Analyses, Bacterial Population Analyses, Soil Analyses, etc • Extensive Experience with computers and Microsoft Powerpoint/ Excel/ and Word Programs, as well as Serial Cloner, Statistica, Blackboard technologies, and Moodle • Experience with SmartBoards and Wiki Technology • C-14 Certificate of Fitness at CSI through FDNY • Quality Matters Certificate (Applying the QM Rubric Workshop) (1/18) • Quality Matters Certificate (Teaching Online Workshop) (7/19) • Experimented using the following model organisms: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, BSL1 and BSL2 Bacterial Species, Drosophila, Grass Shrimp, Isopods/Amphipods, and HeLa cells